Melitaea_didymoides

<i>Melitaea didymoides</i>

Melitaea didymoides

Species of butterfly

Melitaea didymoides is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Russia (Transbaikalia to the Amur and Ussuri regions) as well as in Mongolia and China.[2] The habitat consists of dry meadows and xerothermic slopes with thin vegetation.

Quick Facts Melitaea didymoides, Scientific classification ...

Adults are on wing from June to July.

Subspecies

  • Melitaea didymoides didymoides (southern Tuva, Transbaikalia, Amur)
  • Melitaea didymoides yagakuana Matsumura, 1927 (southern Ussuri)
  • Melitaea didymoides pekinensis Seitz, [1909] (northern China)
  • Melitaea didymoides latonia Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 (central China)
  • Melitaea didymoides eupatides Fruhstorfer, 1917 (Gansu)
  • Melitaea didymoides hummeli Bryk, 1940 (southern Mongolia)

References

  1. [1]
    "Melitaea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. [2]
    Russian Insects


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